# Cross Point (album)

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Cross Point is the fifth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea, released on October 21, 1981 by Alfa Records. This is the band's second album to be created and produced with Harvey Mason. Casiopea did a domestic tour in late November and December after this album's release, which inspired the Mint Jams live album in February of the following year.
The album's name has a double meaning: first referring to an intersection for roadways (as on the cover art), and second, as it says on the LP's OBI paper strip: "The music scene has reached a new cross-point."
This is the first album fully recorded with Mukaiya's GS-1 synthesizer, gifted to him by Yamaha.
The CD release and vinyl include a pamphlet documenting the band's history, written by bassist Tetsuo Sakurai.

## Personnel

CASIOPEA are:
    Issei Noro – electric guitar (YAMAHA SG-2000 & SG-1000 Fretless, KORG guitar synthesizer, Lynn Drum Computer), arrangement
    Minoru Mukaiya – keyboards (Fender Rhodes, YAMAHA CP-80, GS-1, CS-30, KORG 800DV, Trident, Mini Moog, Prophet 10, Roland Jupiter-8, acoustic piano)
    Tetsuo Sakurai – bass guitar (YAMAHA BB-2000)
    Akira Jimbo – drums (YAMAHA YD-9000R), percussion
    Eiji Urata – synthesizer programming

## Production

* Producer – Shunsuke Miyazumi
* Co-Producer – Harvey Mason
* Associate producer – Satoshi Nakao
* Executive producer – Shoro Kawazoe
* Synth Programmer – Eiji Urata
* Engineers – Norio Yoshizawa
* Assistant engineers – Atsushi Saito
* Art direction – Tsuguya Inoue
* Designer – Tsuguya Inoue
* Illustrator – Thomas Bayrle / UNAC TOKYO
* Coordination – Toshinao Tsukui
* Remastering engineer – Kouji Suzuki (2016)

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Note |
| Japan | October 21, 1981 | Alfa Records | stereo 30cmLP | ALR-28029 | stereo |
| Japan | November 25, 1984 | Alfa Records | 12cmCD | 38XA-24 | |
| Japan | January 25, 1987 | Alfa Records | 12cmCD | 32XA-118 | |
| Japan | March 21, 1992 | Alfa Records | 12cmCD | ALCA-276 | |
| Japan | July 27, 1994 | Alfa Records | 12cmCD | ALCA-9006 | |
| Japan | July 23, 1998 | Alfa Records | 12cmCD | ALCA-9201 | |
| Japan | December 19, 2001 | Village Records | remastered 12cmCD | VRCL-2206 | DSD, LP paper jacket |
| Japan | January 17, 2002 | Village Records | remastered 12cmCD | VRCL-2226 | DSD |
| Japan | May 27, 2009 | Sony Music Direct | remastered 12cmCD | MHCL-20008 | DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket |
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